[Cuis-dev] How to enter the method return character?

Gerald Klix cuis.01 at klix.ch
Thu Mar 23 09:16:49 PDT 2023


On 3/23/23 4:59 PM, Juan Vuletich wrote:
> On 3/23/2023 7:18 AM, Gerald Klix via Cuis-dev wrote:
>> On 3/8/23 10:04 PM, Juan Vuletich via Cuis-dev wrote:
>>> On 3/8/2023 5:17 PM, Gerald Klix via Cuis-dev wrote:
>>>> On 3/8/23 8:28 PM, Mariano Montone via Cuis-dev wrote:
>>>>> El 8/3/23 a las 16:09, Juan Vuletich escribió:
>>>>>> Hi Mariano,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I wasn't aware of this, but the Linux VM reports [DeadKey] + 
>>>>>> [Space] very differently from the Mac and Windows VMs. Earlier 
>>>>>> today I pushed a fix. $^ and $" should be OK now with your LatAm 
>>>>>> keyboard.
>>>>> It works again. Thanks!
>>>> Thanks, Actually that dead key behavior made me use US keyboard 
>>>> layout instead of German one,
>>>> when I turned back to Smalltalk about 4 your ago.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Best Regards,
>>>>
>>>> Gerald
>>>
>>> I've been using the US International layout, with dead keys, for 
>>> over 20 years. It is just that I use mostly Mac nowadays, so I 
>>> wasn't aware of the problem. Besides, having now Unicode in Cuis 
>>> makes handling this much nicer.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>> I just tested it with a German keyboard for Sun Microsystems. ^ is 
>> still ad dead key on Linux and FreeBSD.
>>
>>
>> HTH,
>>
>> Gerald
>
> Yes, it is a dead key, same as in any other Linux app, like a text 
> editor. So, [^] followed by [space] should generate '^' (return, 
> possibly up arrow), and [^] followed by [a] should generate 'â'. The 
> same as in a regular text editor.
>
> Isn't that what you get?
>
Yes, of course. It is rather annoying.


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